Four killed in weekend accidents

September 30, 2002|By H. Gregory Meyer, Tribune staff reporter.

Weekend traffic accidents claimed the lives of four pedestrians. Chicago police said a mini-van pinned two pedestrians against a parked sport-utility vehicle on the 5600 block of West Diversey Avenue at 2:47 a.m. Sunday. The mini-van pushed the SUV into a third pedestrian and a building, police said.

Olha Ohmarna, 35, whose address was not known, was killed in the crash, said a spokesman for the Cook County medical examiner's office.

Information was not immediately available on the conditions of a 21-year-old woman taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center and a man, 32, taken to Lutheran General Hospital, police said.

Police said the mini-van's driver, a 28-year-old man, was in custody and charges were pending Sunday night.

Earlier Sunday, a man was hit by a dark-colored Chevrolet Celebrity after he walked between two parked cars into a westbound lane on the 5200 block of West Division Street, police said. William Boyd, 35, of the 4000 block of West Potomac Avenue, was pronounced dead 40 minutes later at Mt. Sinai Hospital, said a spokesman for the Cook County medical examiner's office. Police said they were searching for the driver who allegedly drove away after Boyd was hit.

A husband and wife were hit at 8:15 p.m. Saturday in Hickory Hills as they tried to cross the 7600 block of 95th Street, said Hickory Hills Police Sgt. Dan Skoczylas.

Irene L. Lyskawa, 81, and Stanley Lyskawa, 80, both of the 4200 block of South Archer Avenue, died of multiple injuries hours after being hit by a westbound SUV, police and the Cook County medical examiner's office said.

Hickory Hills police gave the 30-year-old man who was driving the vehicle one citation for failure to yield to a pedestrian. "It was just two parties that apparently didn't see each other," Skoczylas said.